All Posts Tagged With: "flat tax"
Tolls on the Road to Serfdom
D.W. MacKenzie is an assistant professor of economics and finance at SUNY Plattsburgh. Many people think their taxes are too high and that the tax system is unfair. While those who favor individual liberty might find this encouraging, the specific reasons for discontent are not entirely positive. Many Americans think the current system is unfair [...]
1Apr2007 | D.W. MacKenzie | 0 comments | ContinuedSales, Flat, or Spherical, Tax Reform Isn’t the Answer
Lately there has been a flurry of interest in tax reform, typically aimed at making compliance less onerous, removing the incentive for special-interest lobbying, and reducing the size and intrusiveness of the tax-collection agency. While few people will reject those ends, that does not imply that the attempt to achieve them is the optimal use [...]
1Nov2006 | Gene Callahan | 13 comments | ContinuedJapan, Germany, and the End of the Third Way
Norman Barry is a professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham, UK, the country’s only private university. Last year’s election results in Japan and Germany are not only important for those countries but also have wider lessons, for they herald a decisive defeat for a once-fashionable doctrine—the Third Way. This was [...]
1May2006 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Flat Tax
To the Editor: In his article “The Flat Tax: Simplicity Desimplified” (The Freeman, October 1996), Roger Garrison implies that those who favor the flat tax do not care about the size of the tax burden. Since the vast majority of flat-tax supporters are big advocates of lower taxes, and since all the major flat-tax proposals [...]
1Dec1996 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedEnding Tax Socialism
In 1848 Marx and Engels proposed that progressive taxation be used to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeois, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state. Although communism has failed, the idea of progressive taxation as a means of achieving social justice endures. A progressive income tax violates the [...]
1Nov1996 | James A. Dorn | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Flat Tax: Simplicity Desimplified
Dr. Garrison is professor of economics at Auburn University. He wishes to thank David Laband, Jim Long, and Leland Yeager for helpful comments. In modern American politics, advocating a flat tax is the surest way of labeling yourself as a supply-sider, a Jack Kemp/Steve Forbes Republican. Michael Evans[1] made the case for the flat tax [...]
1Oct1996 | Roger W. Garrison | 1 comment | ContinuedCutting Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence from the 1920s
Dr. Smiley teaches at Marquette University. Recent political debates have raised the issue of adopting a flat marginal rate federal income tax. Though the marginal rate would be flat, the addition of a generous personal exemption would make the average personal income tax rate rise as it approached the fixed marginal rate of, say, 17 [...]
1Oct1996 | Gene Smiley | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Flat Tax: Freedom, Fairness, Jobs, and Growth
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar for the Heritage Foundation, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. Mounting taxes push the Tax Foundation’s “Tax Freedom Day” out to May 6, a day when presumably John Q. Taxpayer stops working for government—federal, state, and local—and at last starts working for [...]
1Sep1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued-
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